How culture and language influence perception of our environment - prof. Debi Roberson

Video version with presentation: https://youtu.be/tFoAPwQAmuk For 50 years researchers around the world have investigated how perceptual categories are determined. The 'nature-nurture' debate has largely focused on two areas of classification - color and facial expressions of emotion. The talk summarized the similarities and differences between these two parallel lines of research, and explored how they have advanced our understanding of the relationship between culture, language and perception. About speaker: Debi Roberson obtained her PhD at the University of London in 1999. She joined the Department at Essex in 2000. She is interested in all areas of cross-cultural differences and similarities in cognition in children and adults and conducts fieldwork in Namibia, China, Papua New Guinea, South Korea and Egypt. The lecture is a part of the series “The Challenges to the Humanities in the 21st Century”, organized by SWPS University Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies Program.